He spent his formative years as a worker in Tijuana’s maquiladoras, light-industry sweatshops that bloomed like poisonous mushrooms in the Mexican borderlands after the passage of NAFTA. This is perhaps why so much of Yépez’s critique of the Mexico City literary establishment focuses on money: who gets it, who doesn’t, and who decides who belongs in each category.
7 Resources on Translating Blackness, Race, and Racism
Five years ago, John Keene published “Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness,” a clarion call for more Afro-diasporic literature in English translation, noting the exclusion of Black writers from the already marginalized market of translated literature. Even greater than the dearth of Black literature in translation is the dearth of Black translators into English, not to mention the lack of writing about translating Blackness evidenced by the fact that discussions of race and translation tend to reference Keene’s essay and not much else.
This list provides resources to further the discussion on translating Blackness, race, and racism and foregrounds the work of Black translators and other translators of color. Topics range from the translation of Black literature to support for BIPOC translators to the translation of the Black Lives Matter movement. The various pieces touch on a key point of Keene’s argument: that mo
immigrants waited in lines as long as a mile yesterday to apply to temporarily remain and work in the united states legally. these are young people who study in our schools, play in our neighborhoods, friends with our kids from a pledge allegiance to our flag. they are americans in their hearts and minds, and every single way but one on paper. arizona governor jan brewer has issued an executive order barring immigrants are granted a reprieve from receiving public benefits or getting a driver s license. we will speak with journalist roberto lovato the mexican poet javier sicilia whose son was is launching aar b caravan against drug policy. ourselvesere to tell in them we will not turn this pain and our soul and body in more violence, but help to restore love, peace, justice, dignity, and the sputtering democracy we are losing. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the government of ecuador
immigrants waited in lines as long as a mile yesterday to apply to temporarily remain and work in the united states legally. these are young people who study in our schools, play in our neighborhoods, friends with our kids from a pledge allegiance to our flag. they are americans in their hearts and minds, and every single way but one on paper. arizona governor jan brewer has issued an executive order barring immigrants are granted a reprieve from receiving public benefits or getting a driver s license. we will speak with journalist roberto lovato the mexican poet javier sicilia whose son was is launching aar b caravan against drug policy. ourselvesere to tell in them we will not turn this pain and our soul and body in more violence, but help to restore love, peace, justice, dignity, and the sputtering democracy we are losing. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the government of ecuador
assange anyway. we will speak with john and assange s lawyer michael ratner and get a report from outside the embassy in london. thousands of young, undocumented immigrants waited in lines as long as a mile yesterday to apply to temporarily remain and work in the united states legally. these are young people who study in our schools, play in our neighborhoods, friends with our kids from a pledge allegiance to our flag. they are americans in their hearts and minds, and every single way but one on paper. arizona governor jan brewer has issued an executive order barring immigrants are granted a reprieve from receiving public benefits or getting a driver s license. we will speak with journalist roberto lovato the mexican poet javier sicilia whose son was is launching aar b caravan against drug policy. ourselvesere to tell in them we will not turn this pain and our soul and body in more violence, but help to restore love, peace, justice, dignity, and the sputtering democracy